First a bit of a rant (and sorry if this is not the right place to post this) As many others I loved discussing movies and tv series on imdb and was outraged they deleted this part of modern culture. I'd go as far as saying they had no right to do this. Movies are part of our culture like books are, and they kind of did something similar to book burning. I have learned so much about specific movies and about movies in general, understanding and appreciating them better. The flimsy excuses about trolls is silly - and even if true they just let the trolls win? There are certain network effects that lead to one or few sites to have a decisive advantage of having enough users that the user submitted content (votes, reviews, discussions, explanations) make it near impossible for other competitors to succeed. Now IMDb is basically useless to me, and I hope other websites stop linking to it.

So tmdb looks great and I love they added a discussion section. The traffic isn't near what imdb was yet, but it looks promising so I'm hopeful and thankful for tmdb to take up the slack.

But who owns tmdb? Could tmdb be sold and then the discussion be closed down in a few years or a decade? Afaik imdb started as independent too and was bought by amazon and now this. How is tmdb financed and what are the commercial interests behind it?